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The White House briefly published — then deleted — a video from Donald Trump’s private Easter luncheon in which the US president made a series of inflammatory remarks, and repeated false claims about several public figures. These extraordinarily candid comments were likely never supposed to be heard by the public. However, the closed-door footage was downloaded by a journalist before it was removed and later circulated online.
In the hour-long recording, Trump mocked the marriage of French President Emmanuel Macron and imitated him with a French accent, remarks that Macron later called “neither elegant or up to standard.”
At another moment, Trump mused about being a “king,” referring both to the Democrats’ ‘No Kings’ protests held across the country against his leadership, and his $400 million project to build a ballroom in the White House.
His televangelist spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain also compared Trump’s life and challenges to Jesus Christ, drawing parallels between assassination attempts and legal battles with the trials endured by Jesus. These comments have triggered backlash from Christian groups nationwide.
Trump also repeated false and xenophobic claims about US Congresswoman for Minnesota Ilhan Omar, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, repeating baseless statements he’s previously made despite having been debunked by fact-checkers.
The president also repeated false claims about US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, among others — statements that have circulated previously online but have been debunked by fact-checkers.
Vedika Bahl goes through what the US President said in this closed-door footage in Truth or Fake.
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The White House briefly published — then deleted — a video from Donald Trump’s private Easter luncheon in which the US president made a series of inflammatory remarks, and repeated false claims about several public figures. These extraordinarily candid comments were likely never supposed to be heard by the public. However, the closed-door footage was downloaded by a journalist before it was removed and later circulated online.
In the hour-long recording, Trump mocked the marriage of French President Emmanuel Macron and imitated him with a French accent, remarks that Macron later called “neither elegant or up to standard.”
At another moment, Trump mused about being a “king,” referring both to the Democrats’ ‘No Kings’ protests held across the country against his leadership, and his $400 million project to build a ballroom in the White House.
His televangelist spiritual advisor Paula White-Cain also compared Trump’s life and challenges to Jesus Christ, drawing parallels between assassination attempts and legal battles with the trials endured by Jesus. These comments have triggered backlash from Christian groups nationwide.
Trump also repeated false and xenophobic claims about US Congresswoman for Minnesota Ilhan Omar, and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, repeating baseless statements he’s previously made despite having been debunked by fact-checkers.
The president also repeated false claims about US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, among others — statements that have circulated previously online but have been debunked by fact-checkers.
Vedika Bahl goes through what the US President said in this closed-door footage in Truth or Fake.
Iran on Monday hanged another man convicted in connection with nationwide protests in January, as executions of people regarded by rights groups as political prisoners mount against the backdrop of the war against Israel and the United States.
Ali Fahim, 23, was hanged after being found guilty of involvement in an attack on a Tehran base of the Revolutionary Guards’ Basij militia during the protests, according to rights groups who have followed the case.
The judiciary’s Mizan Online website described him as “one of the enemy elements in the terrorist riots”, and said he was hanged after the supreme court approved the original verdict.
Seven men, including Fahim, were sentenced to death in February over the incident. Four, including two teenagers, have now been executed, leaving the three others at imminent risk of execution, according to rights groups.
After an initial pause in executions after the war broke out on February 28, Iranian authorities have in the last eight days alone put to death 10 “political prisoners”, said the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR).
In this period, four people have been hanged over the protests, while another six have been executed on charges of membership in the outlawed People’s Mujahedin (MEK) opposition group.
‘Grossly unfair’ trial
IHR said Fahim and his co-defendants has been “subjected to torture and denied access to legal counsel”, and were sentenced to death in a “grossly unfair” fast-track trial presided over by judge Abolqasem Salavati. Salavati was sanctioned in 2019 by the United States, which said he was known as the “Judge of Death” for his frequent use of capital punishment.
“These executions are part of the Islamic republic’s strategy of survival – waging war against its own people under the shadow of external conflict,” said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
“The international community must respond with urgency. The situation of prisoners and the regime’s systematic use of the death penalty must be made a central condition in any negotiations or engagement with the Islamic republic,” he added.
‘Spread fear’
Mizan said Fahim was convicted of working against Iran on behalf of “the Zionist regime and the United States”, as well as breaking into a classified military site to seize weapons.
The nationwide demonstrations were met with a brutal crackdown by the authorities that rights groups say left thousands of people dead. Iran on Sunday executed two men – Mohammad-Amin Biglari, 19, and Shahin Vahedparast, 30 – and on Thursday hanged Amir Hossein Hatami, 18, all of whom were convicted in the same case.
Their executions were confirmed by the Iranian judiciary, and their ages given by rights groups. Amnesty International has said that these executions have shown the judiciary is “a tool of repression sending individuals to the gallows to spread fear and exacting revenge on those demanding fundamental political change”.
The executions came amid Iran’s war with Israel and the United States, which erupted on February 28 with strikes that killed the Islamic republic’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Iran on March 19 also executed three men accused of killing police officers during the protests in January, in the first hangings Iran carried out related to the demonstrations.
Before the strikes, some Palestinians had clashed with members of an Israeli-backed militia, who they said attacked the school in an attempt to abduct some people, medics and residents said.
In the midst of the clashes, east of the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Israeli drones fired two missiles into the area, killing at least 10 people and wounding several others, they added.
It was not immediately clear how many civilians had been killed in the strikes, which hit in a closely packed neighborhood of mostly displaced Palestinians.
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Ahmed al-Maghazi, an eyewitness, said their area was attacked by members of the Israeli-backed militia who operate in the territory adjacent to where the Israeli forces are in control, before the militia opened fire.
“The residents tried to defend their homes, but the occupation forces targeted them directly,” he told Reuters.
Later on Monday, a leader of one of the Israeli-backed militias said in a video which Reuters couldn’t immediately authenticate that they killed some five Hamas members.
There was no immediate comment from Hamas, which brands those groups that operate in areas under Israeli control as “Israeli collaborators.”
Earlier on Monday, an Israeli airstrike killed one Palestinian and wounded a child as they traveled on a motorbike in Gaza City, medics said.
Medics said that Israeli forces killed another Palestinian when they opened fire on a vehicle in central Gaza, taking Monday’s death toll to at least 12.
The Israeli military said they fired at the “unmarked vehicle”, which continued to accelerate toward troops despite “warning shots”.
The World Health Organisation’s chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said a contractor in Gaza was killed during a security incident, prompting the organization to suspend medical evacuations from Gaza via Rafah to Egypt until further notice.
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The Israeli military said two local employees of WHO were injured and that the incident was under review. WHO said that two of its staff members were present but were not injured in the incident.
The Palestinian group Hamas, which has run Gaza since 2007, and Israel have traded blame over violations of the ceasefire that kicked off in October.
The Gaza health ministry says Israeli fire has killed at least 700 people since the ceasefire began. Israel says four soldiers have been killed by militants in Gaza over the same period.
Hamas has continued to resist relinquishing its weapons, a major obstacle in talks to implement the next steps in US President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza.
On Sunday, Hamas’ armed wing said that discussing the group’s disarmament before Israel fully implements the first phase of Trump’s plan was an attempt to continue what it called a genocide against the Palestinian people.
Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel’s ensuing two-year campaign killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to Gazan health authorities.
The offensive spread famine, reduced most of the strip to rubble, and displaced the majority of its population.
